Sunday, September 5, 2010

Sunday Sept 5 - Stormy Weather

We were postponed on shore for a few hours this morning as a big storm cell passed through. We hid in the garden shed while it rained. I copied some club music off Tina's computer while Jen tidied and Tina and Sanni re-organized their toolboxes. We were eventually sent out at 3 pm. We geared up in everything we own like in Weymouth (or Holland, or Kiel, it hasn't been a warm summer!) and hit the water. The wind was light but then another cloud passed overhead and the breeze picked up. Jen and I had the usual discussion about which pin setting to be in. We settled on a setting and the boys managed to get a start off without a general. (I shouldn't complain, we are just as bad but we usually are the 3rd start). We had a terrible start and headed out to the left. This was in fact a terrible race. We couldn't point upwind, we couldn't focus and I couldn't get the spinnaker system set up properly on the reach. The breeze was down to about 8-10 knots but huge puffs were rolling down the course and were difficult to see on the water. We re-grouped before the next race, and got some tips from the Danish coach who had followed us for a bit on the second beat. The next race was better. Our start wasn't great but we tacked out into clean air and were able to point. We rounded behind but caught a few boats on the downwind. The second upwind was good, we managed to capitalize on some shifts and pulled off a nice leebow on another boat at the windward mark (I don't think they were pleased, but they tack on us every upwind leg so fair's fair).

Another day done at sundown. Tomorrow is the last day of Europeans. The medal races will take place at 3:00 pm and the final race for everyone else will be at 11:00 am.
 
More pictures in the Turkey album as well as some pictures of us in the event photo gallery (images 19, 25 and 26 from Day 4.)

No comments:

Post a Comment